496 Broke :(
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496 Broke :( This is my dads 1987 Monte Carlo SS Drag Car... it has a 454 bored and stroked to a 496 with a medium sized roller cam, hooker super comp headers, AFR aluminum heads, performer rpm intake, and 950 cfm holley double pumper, power glide, and 9 inch ford rear ... he was the 2007 pro class points champion at Action City Dragway, Terre Haute, IN and his best time is a 6.18 @ 110 mph with a 1.36 60'.. This year he was second in points for the final race and ran 2 6.40's in a row with a .02 light and .008 light 
for his time trials and when up to do a third T/T and heard a weird noise so he took it off the track and took it back to the pits... after taking off the valve cover he found the moroso valve spring in 4 pieces! 
So there went his chances at winning a second championship... when we got home we took off the head and found a whole in the piston with the head of the valve broken off and in the intake manifold!! the head got banged up pretty good and has to be sent off to be welded... guess it wasnt his day was it!!!
for his time trials and when up to do a third T/T and heard a weird noise so he took it off the track and took it back to the pits... after taking off the valve cover he found the moroso valve spring in 4 pieces! So there went his chances at winning a second championship... when we got home we took off the head and found a whole in the piston with the head of the valve broken off and in the intake manifold!! the head got banged up pretty good and has to be sent off to be welded... guess it wasnt his day was it!!! Thread Starter
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you kno i am not for sure he got this intake id say 4 to 5 years ago and stuck with it ever since and he has his mild cam for torque he claims that it gives him more torque and with those launches its hard to argue and you probably wont believe this but this is with like 18 degrees of timing and his car likes 42 but nhra rules state that you have to be certified to run 6.39 or under and have a lot more protective clothing and he didnt want to do all that and a lot of ppl at our track ran under but he started doing good so people decided they were going to complain so he backed the timing way off until he would run 6.4 now he is getting in certified!
Yep 9.98 and quicker you need to have the cage cert'D, not to mention you need a Comp license to run your car.
I'd say it might pickup some power and a little grunt with a Victor or Super Victor, but it sounds like that packages works pretty well as it is so why spend money if it does what he wants it to I say....
Good looking car, I think I may have seen it on Yellowbullet.com?
I'd say it might pickup some power and a little grunt with a Victor or Super Victor, but it sounds like that packages works pretty well as it is so why spend money if it does what he wants it to I say....
Good looking car, I think I may have seen it on Yellowbullet.com?
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yeah im glad he is doing all of that this winter he said he might borrow some juice and throw down a 5 second pass! but yeah it would be cool to have a better intake and thanks i wish mine looked half that good! but i didnt even know about yellowbullet and i got on there and sure enough you were right he was running the 6.50 OSM class!!!
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Yeah you'll find the fast guys on YB, lots of trash or be trashed though LOL! I have a buddy w/ an 85 MCSS that makes 670whp on the unit and it flat moves! Its a SLEEPER from hell and he used to make a ton of money with it....
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thats awesome! you must be one of those fast guys with a 2800 lbs car and 800whp !! but i have always loved montes and sounds awesome i would get caught with something like that knowing my luck... do u have any pics of it?
You know I might somewhere, I have hours of street racing vids form the mid 90's when he used to hustle the **** out of people, it even had a 406 w/ a Carb Shop Q-jet on it then and a very stealthy nitrous system. I think it went bottom 11's on the street...
Looked 100% stock at night man, everything painted flat black even lines and noids LOL. It drew the nickname "Black Death" after awhile but guys still wanted to test it out for cash 
Thats another thing it had ported stock exhaust manifolds and some tiny pea shooter exhaust LOL! Fools thought it was still a 305 lol! It was quite impressive to be honest....
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thats so funny i have never heard of that... but if you go to my youtube page www.youtube.com/tewell86 you can see my 305 rev and my rev now are really my305 sounds like it has more cam!
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hahaha thats great i would love to have a sleeper around here cuz like we have all these hondas that i kill now lol but we have a few ls1s none really with bolt ons but my friends that runs 8.2s and is the formula with the v6 body! he has one of the fastest street cars around here
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this is the second season and he has like 3/4s of a year on the valve springs like 200 total passes and he called moroso and they told him to change them every 100 to 150 passes!!